Let’s face it, life as an actor is not always glamorous. Throughout your career, you may land a year-long project, or even have a few – or be a series lead or regular – but then after that, maybe nothing comes up for some time. So then what? How do you stay motivated?
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Good looks and charm won’t help if you can’t recite your lines correctly and act convincingly. So many actors believe that all they need is to meet an agent or casting director to soar their acting career – but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. What they fail to understand is that to rise…

In the acting industry, there are many components that we as actors have to deal with. Whether it is getting used to the spontaneous timetable, being given a script to learn the night before an audition or the constant waiting for the next role or audition to arise. One of the main components that we…

From School to Scorsese: Asa Butterfield Shares His Advice for Aspiring Actors Modest, ambitious, and down-to-earth, at 20 Asa Butterfield already has an astonishing filmography behind him, including lead roles in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011), Morgan Matthews’ X+Y (2014) and Tim Burton’s magical Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016). Following his starring role in…

Remember that fresh just out of drama school feeling? You were one of the ‘chosen ones’ that was going to make it; you were young, perky and had decided that method was the only way for you. But you didn’t know where to find an agent, you didn’t have a show reel and when you…

Having graduated from the August 2016 Reel Scene acting training event I can say that the Reel Scene is the only course out of a number of acting courses that showed me the differences between stage and screen acting and gave me the chance to do both and compare for myself. That being said I…

My Reel Scene Event acting training Experience I can honestly say that I was completely blown away during and after The Reel Scene Event. In the days after the course, I constantly found myself thinking about the event and how I never wanted it to end. The Reel Scene Event gave me the drive to…